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EXCLUSIVE: Republican Party officials, pressing forward with plans to hold an in-person national convention, have hired a senior medical adviser to help pave a safe path for the event in August amid the coronavirus pandemic, Fox News has learned.
The Republican National Convention is expected to be held Aug. 24-27 in Charlotte, N.C.
We are fully committed to an in-person event in August, a GOP convention official told Fox News. Were forging ahead as originally planned.
The official told Fox News that the Republican National Committee has hired Dr. Jeffrey Runge, a leading national health security official and medical practitioner, to join the GOP convention team as a senior adviser for Health and Safety Planning.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/republicans-pressing-forward-with-convention-amid-coronavirus-bring-on-medical-adviser/ar-BB13KjDc?li=BBnb7Kz
Please proceed.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)malaise
(268,998 posts)among yourselves.
That is all
Renew Deal
(81,859 posts)bluestarone
(16,940 posts)My money is on science!!! Better that there will be LESS FUCKING RETHUGLICONS anyhow!!
Moostache
(9,895 posts)Fuck 'em...I hope they all die horrible, lonely gasping deaths. Pray to Jeebus to stop the lining of your lungs from sloughing off, maybe it will help, what have you got to lose?
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)Charlotte is the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in my state. The last thing that we need is more jackasses that underestimate the dangers of this virus running around the city after we get things under a semblance of control.
Why don't conservatives ever hold their events in Rural enclaves and just make due with the infrastructure there?
nykym
(3,063 posts)was most likely recommended by kushner
Budi
(15,325 posts)...by election day in November.
Hope they all show up unmasked in a crowded room.
littlemissmartypants
(22,656 posts)Mecklenburg County has over 1,900 confirmed cases today with more than 50 in the last 24 hours. It shares borders with more than five counties each reporting over 100 cases each today. The area should be good and ripe for the convention.
lark
(23,099 posts)Either that or Hair Furor will have to be secluded and he won't allow that. We can all hope for the best - for America.